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... regard him as the Author of our being , and the bountiful Parent of our mercies . Every generous and noble principle and feeling of our nature calls us to love , obey , and glorify him who gave us life , who feeds and clothes and ...
... regard him as the Author of our being , and the bountiful Parent of our mercies . Every generous and noble principle and feeling of our nature calls us to love , obey , and glorify him who gave us life , who feeds and clothes and ...
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... regard to that law , and of course without obeying it ; for God looketh on the heart . Thus a man may have a native tenderness , or honesty , or mildness , or he may assume the appearance of these amiable qualities ; and he may thus be ...
... regard to that law , and of course without obeying it ; for God looketh on the heart . Thus a man may have a native tenderness , or honesty , or mildness , or he may assume the appearance of these amiable qualities ; and he may thus be ...
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... regards the happiness of mankind , your life has been an utter blank . 2. The business of distilling is not only useless , but is the occasion of many and great evils . Recent examination has developed a number of appalling facts ...
... regards the happiness of mankind , your life has been an utter blank . 2. The business of distilling is not only useless , but is the occasion of many and great evils . Recent examination has developed a number of appalling facts ...
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... regard the enterprise as one , on the success of which hang the liberties of our republic , and the happiness of future millions . You cannot be surprised , then , that they look with pain on operations directly adapted to defeat their ...
... regard the enterprise as one , on the success of which hang the liberties of our republic , and the happiness of future millions . You cannot be surprised , then , that they look with pain on operations directly adapted to defeat their ...
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... regard the subject of religion as all a fiction — a mere farce , designed to pro- duce an effect for the moment , without a shadow of reality in the truths in- culcated , or of importance in the duties enjoined ! And here unbelief is ...
... regard the subject of religion as all a fiction — a mere farce , designed to pro- duce an effect for the moment , without a shadow of reality in the truths in- culcated , or of importance in the duties enjoined ! And here unbelief is ...
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Page 295 - And they spake unto him the word of the Lord and to all .that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes ; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Page 97 - And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever...
Page 349 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 106 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, Written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 325 - That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. 8 And Zaccheus stood, and said unto the Lord ; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Page 97 - The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.
Page 285 - And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 125 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God ? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 128 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Page 295 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.